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problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] one more Rcmdrproblem)

4 messages · Thomas Ruf, Brian Ripley, John Fox +1 more

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Thomas Ruf
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Dear all,
I'd like to use Rcmdr for teaching purposes but still have problems
trying to use it under Windows XP. Everything works fine up to several
minutes but then Rcmdr and R completely crash the second I hit a button
or key. This indeed looks like a problem with tcltk. It is not any
particular button or key that causes the crash, but using Ctrl+C to copy
something to the clipboard seem the most 'reliable' cause. I tried this
on 4 different PCs all under Windows XP (home or prof.), SP1. I did
download and reinstall R 2.0.0, RCmdr and required packages on Nov. 1,
2004, but that didn't help either. Are there any new insights into these 
problems?

Best regards,
Thomas
Brian Ripley
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This is known and we believe already fixed, so please try a beta of 2.0.1, 
from

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html

[BTW, the header is wrong, this is R-2.0.1 beta, not patch.]

Or just don't use Ctrl-C ....
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Thomas Ruf wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Dear Thomas,

Brian Ripley has already mentioned that Windows/tcltk problems have been
fixed in R 2.0.1 beta. I'll provide some background.

In addition to the control-key problems with R 2.0.0, I and my students have
been experiencing a number of Windows instability problems running the Rcmdr
this fall. The version of R that my students have is 1.9.1 patched, and the
same version is installed in the university computer labs. I found that with
this version and R 2.0.0 (under Windows 2000 and XP), running the Rcmdr
under rterm.exe rather than under rgui.exe seems to provide much better
stability. This is a reasonable solution for me since my intro stats
students interact with R only through the Rcmdr GUI. 

I'm hopeful that tcltk will run more stably on Windows under R 2.0.1 with
the console provided by rgui.exe.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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      Kjetil Halvorsen
    

    

      
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
That's not likely to succeed in classes ....

Kjetil